yeah, all the files under the masks folder within the hashcat root directory are .hcmask files
Therefore you have plenty of examples, just see the masks folder of the 7-zip "hashcat binaries" from https://hashcat.net/hashcat/
You are also lucky that a second explanation exists within the hashcat FAQ (see https://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=fre..._mask_file ).
I also admit that most of the hcmask files within the masks folder don't use the feature of defining your own charset, but there is one example called hashcat-default.hcmask which (currently) has this content:
this defines 3 new charsets:
- the first one is: --custom-charset1 ?l?d?u
- the second one is: --custom-charset2 ?l?d
- the third one is: --custom-charset3 ?l?d*!$@_
(note, depending on your operating system and shell that you use, you need to quote the strings when using directly within the command line, with single or double quotes)
I think it's quite easy to understand, given that this is an advanced attack technique for an advanced password cracking tool (hashcat), but feel free to ask questions if you are still struggling
marc1n : please refrain from only writing "I send PM" in the future. This is a hashcat forum that is based on user-to-user (community) help that is posted within questions and replies (as forum posts) where knowledge and information are shared publicly. We try to help each other in public here.
I've seen already several posts of you that just mention that you've send some DM/PM . This is not following the spirit of helping each other publicly. Either you have a solution and want to share it or you don't have them.
I'm not going to judge (and I also don't know for sure) what you are going to write in the DMs, but in my opinion there is little reason for going private/dark here, except if you want to mention something that you are not willing to share publicly.
Again, I don't know what you write in these PMs etc, but it's against the forum rules to ask for hashes and/or promote any strange services for cracking user hashes (or similar).... and this also holds if users are kind of forced into a private communication that doesn't make much sense (there are some very rare exceptions e.g. if a hashcat developer needs some files to troubleshoot a problem or similar) etc. So I use this chance (again, I'm not saying it's the case here) to strongly advice anybody to not trust other (random) forum users that make any strange request over DMs and maybe also report any attempt of breaking the forum rules or scam attempt etc to the forum moderators / admins (again, I'm not judging this case... I'm just saying that we can't really know what happens in the DMs, but if we get reports of users getting any strange request or are getting links to any strange spam/scam site, we can still investigate and ban the users).
So this is the first warning (actually the second, because royce already mentioned something similar here: https://hashcat.net/forum/thread-10107-p...l#pid52633) and I really apologize if these "claims" (or in general the warning/suspicion) are completely wrong, but you still should stick to the open community spirit of this forum.
Of course we can ban users whenever we see that users don't stick to the rules and are annoying users with strange request over DMs (or similar) or just forum posts mentioning and annoying other users with direct messages etc.
Therefore you have plenty of examples, just see the masks folder of the 7-zip "hashcat binaries" from https://hashcat.net/hashcat/
You are also lucky that a second explanation exists within the hashcat FAQ (see https://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=fre..._mask_file ).
I also admit that most of the hcmask files within the masks folder don't use the feature of defining your own charset, but there is one example called hashcat-default.hcmask which (currently) has this content:
Code:
?l?d?u,?l?d,?l?d*!$@_,?1?2?2?2?2?2?2?3?3?3?3?d?d?d?dthis defines 3 new charsets:
- the first one is: --custom-charset1 ?l?d?u
- the second one is: --custom-charset2 ?l?d
- the third one is: --custom-charset3 ?l?d*!$@_
(note, depending on your operating system and shell that you use, you need to quote the strings when using directly within the command line, with single or double quotes)
I think it's quite easy to understand, given that this is an advanced attack technique for an advanced password cracking tool (hashcat), but feel free to ask questions if you are still struggling
marc1n : please refrain from only writing "I send PM" in the future. This is a hashcat forum that is based on user-to-user (community) help that is posted within questions and replies (as forum posts) where knowledge and information are shared publicly. We try to help each other in public here.
I've seen already several posts of you that just mention that you've send some DM/PM . This is not following the spirit of helping each other publicly. Either you have a solution and want to share it or you don't have them.
I'm not going to judge (and I also don't know for sure) what you are going to write in the DMs, but in my opinion there is little reason for going private/dark here, except if you want to mention something that you are not willing to share publicly.
Again, I don't know what you write in these PMs etc, but it's against the forum rules to ask for hashes and/or promote any strange services for cracking user hashes (or similar).... and this also holds if users are kind of forced into a private communication that doesn't make much sense (there are some very rare exceptions e.g. if a hashcat developer needs some files to troubleshoot a problem or similar) etc. So I use this chance (again, I'm not saying it's the case here) to strongly advice anybody to not trust other (random) forum users that make any strange request over DMs and maybe also report any attempt of breaking the forum rules or scam attempt etc to the forum moderators / admins (again, I'm not judging this case... I'm just saying that we can't really know what happens in the DMs, but if we get reports of users getting any strange request or are getting links to any strange spam/scam site, we can still investigate and ban the users).
So this is the first warning (actually the second, because royce already mentioned something similar here: https://hashcat.net/forum/thread-10107-p...l#pid52633) and I really apologize if these "claims" (or in general the warning/suspicion) are completely wrong, but you still should stick to the open community spirit of this forum.
Of course we can ban users whenever we see that users don't stick to the rules and are annoying users with strange request over DMs (or similar) or just forum posts mentioning and annoying other users with direct messages etc.